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   Message 231 of 2,630   
   mark lewis to Scott Street   
   xlat bug?   
   21 Jun 12 19:50:13   
   
   > the first message body DID have some characters above 127 that were    
   > xlated and the second message body was all 7bit ascii... i think    
   > there's a bug because according to my settings, both should have been    
   > translated to iso-8859-1 when my newsreader requested them...   
   >   
   > or am i missing something?   
      
    SS> No missing anything.  In the code, unless a 8bit character is   
    SS> found, then no translation is executed (saves CPU time for 7bit   
    SS> messages).   
      
   ok... i understand that... however...   
      
    SS> For instance, even though the CHRS for this message will say, UTF-8   
    SS> 2, it doesn't need to be translated as all the characters are   
    SS> indeed standard us-ascii.   
      
   that's fine... except my config specifically says to output iso-8859-1... i   
   call that a bug ;)   
      
    SS> However, see next message.   
      
   i will in a minute... reading and replying to "my mail" at the moment ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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